Robert Lustyik, center, meets Nov. 24 with his lawyer, Ray Mansolillo, left, at Lustyik's home in Sleepy Hollow. Daniel Calabro, right, is the attorney for a co-defendant in the conspiracy case, Johannes Thaler. / Peter Carr/The Journal News

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Federal prosecutors and lawyers for a former FBI “spy hunter” from Sleepy Hollow are feuding over whether ex-agent Robert Lustyik should remain free on bail in his international conspiracy case.

Lustyik, who is charged in Utah and alleged to have orchestrated a scheme to derail a federal fraud probe in exchange for lucrative payoffs, was allowed to return home on a $2 million bond secured by his Westchester County home by Oct. 12, prosecutors said in a letter to Lustyik’s lawyer this month.

However, in the letter to attorney Ray Mansolillo, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Salt Lake City said prosecutors “could find no indication on the property records that the residence is currently securing Mr. Lustyik’s $2 million bond.”

If no evidence of the bond is presented, prosecutors said, “we will have no choice but to notify the court of this violation of his conditions of release.”

Mansolillo could not be reached for comment in recent days. But in a voice message to The Journal News last week, the lawyer said that “the $2 million has been pledged time and time and time again. I filed a note with the chief judge there that their actions were frivolous and just an attempt, a constant attempt, to keep my client imprisoned pending trial.”

“They weren’t successful at the beginning because they lied about it, and they’re not going to be successful about it now,” Mansolillo said. “He has met his conditions.”

It was the latest twist in an already complex case, in which much of the legal wrangling — including the status of the bail dispute — remains under wraps due to an order from U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell sealing most of the material because of the sensitive nature of the cloak-and-dagger case.

The government charges that Lustyik, 50, and childhood friend Johannes Thaler, 49, a former Tarrytown resident, tried to thwart an unrelated fraud probe into defense contractor Michael Taylor. Prosecutors allege that Lustyik sought to have Taylor enlisted as a confidential government source to derail the fraud probe, which charges that Taylor defrauded the government in a $54 million defense contract in Afghanistan with his company, American International Security Corp.

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Taylor, a Special Forces veteran, remains jailed in that case.

Prosecutors subsequently indicted Lustyik and Thaler, alleging they sought to collect $200,000 and a cut of lucrative international contracts secured by Taylor’s company. Both remain free while the case moves forward — at least for now.

Prosecutors cited dozens of text messages and emails in their indictment. On Oct. 25, 2011, they said Lustyik emailed Thaler that “taylor is looking for a way to take care of me so I said u n I r working together on these and he said he will be sending money ur way.” Later, he said Taylor “has 2 contracts they r about to sign. I think he might want to give us 200 gs.”

Defense lawyers have maintained that prosecutors took the communications out of context, and noted that Thaler is a ladies-shoes salesman at Macy’s, and hardly an international conspirator.

They said the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Utah, which was investigating the Taylor fraud case, simply stumbled onto Lustyik’s unrelated efforts to secure Taylor as a confidential government source and have refused to admit their mistake. They said Thaler did travel to the Middle East to meet Taylor, but only to seek assistance in starting his fledgling Tarrytown-based energy company.

Meanwhile, prosecutors have moved to disqualify Mansolillo as Lustyik’s lawyer, claiming the attorney arranged a meeting between Lustyik, Taylor and former colleagues at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, where Mansolillo once served as an agent. They claim the purpose of the meeting was for Lustyik to push the DEA to sign Taylor on as a source. In court papers, Mansolillo denied that he took part in the meeting, arguing that he “did not participate in the meeting but only made introductions. Prior to the disclosure of classified documents,” and “left the room as he felt his presence was inappropriate.”